Airline launches exclusive collaborations and engaging activations DUBAI, UAE, 9 December 2016 – Emirates will make its design collaboration debut at the second edition of Meet d3, in addition to engaging visitors with on-ground experiences geared for all ages. Emirates will be in Meet d3 at the Dubai Design District which runs until 10 December. Emirates recently collaborated with renowned jewelry designer and artist Nadine Kanso to create a limited edition collection called ‘Bil Arabi for Emirates’. Bil Arabi literally means ‘in Arabic’, and Kanso, a resident d3 artist, is famous for her distinctive use of Arabic letters and calligraphy...

By Ellen Nakashima and Philip Rucker December 9 at 11:53 AM President Obama has ordered a “full review” of Russian hacking during the November election, as pressure from Congress has grown for greater public understanding of exactly what Moscow did to interfere in the electoral process. “We may have crossed into a new threshold, and it is incumbent upon us to take stock of that, to review, to conduct some after-action, to understand what has happened and to impart some lessons learned,” Obama’s counterterrorism and homeland-security adviser, Lisa Monaco, told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor....

Washington  –  December 9, 2016 —   Michael J. Abramowitz, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education and a distinguished former journalist at the Washington Post, will become president of Freedom House on February 6, 2017, the organization’s Board of Trustees announced today. “Mike brings a unique set of talents through a career that has blended journalism, human rights, and museum education,” said Kenneth I. Juster, chairman of the Board. “He has demonstrated exceptional leadership, vision, and creativity, especially in his efforts to expand the Holocaust Museum’s global reach and its work on genocide prevention. We are confident...